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G R E A T W E S T W IN D O W O F T H E C A T H E D R A L C H U R C H O F S T . A N D R E W , H O N O L U L U

Two Churches DedicatedOn Sunday, February 15th, the Bishop dedicated

St. Barnabas Church, Ewa Beach, at 10:00 a.m. He was assisted by the Vicar, The Rev. Arthur B. Ward, and the Rev. Canon Wai On Shim. Following the service a delightful pot luck luncheon was served to the many in the congregation.

At 3 p.m. the same day he dedicated Calvary Church, Kaneohe. The Rev. William R. Grosh, Vicar, assisted. The clergy on Oahu were in procession for the service. The Rev. Claude F. Du Teil, Rector of St. Christopher’s Church, Kailua, preached the sermon.

Calvary Church is a very beautiful edifice, and completes the building program for this congrega­tion. Lemmon, Freeth, Haines and Jones were archi­tects for the church building. T. Iida was Contractor. Mr. W allace J. Lamon was the Building Chairman.

Following the service of Dedication a very de­lightful reception was held in the Parish Hall.

Both of these new churches are a great addition to our Diocesan property and we commend the congre­gations for what they have done.

St. Barnabas’ Mission, Ewa BeachFrom beer lanai to bowling alley, to a place of

their own in a period of fifteen months—this is the history of the Church School of St. Barnabas’ Mission, Ewa Beach.

Services were first held at the Navy Rifle Range and later at the Ammunition D epot in the Ewa Beach area for the thirty to forty interested families who first met with Bishop Kennedy in November 1957 and asked if there were any possibility of having regular services. The Rev. Arthur B. Ward, who is also a full­

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time teacher at lolani School, was appointed Vicar and services have been held every Sunday since the first Sunday in Advent 1957.

On the first Sunday in Lent Bishop Kennedy dedi­cated the building which has been constructed largely by members of the congregation themselves, under the leadership of Vern Christensen. The Church School now numbers about 50 children and young people and there have been 16 baptisms and 22 confirmations since the mission was organized. Members of the Bishop’s Committee are, Ward Tull, Warden; Dale Firestone, Mrs. Henry W hite Jr., Miss Avis Nelson, Thomas Herring and Vern Christensen. Mrs. C. G, Parks is superintendent of the Church School.

Altar BlessedThe altar of Calvary Church, Kaneohe, was blessed

by the Vicar, The Rev. William G. Grosh, on Sunday, March 8th. It is the gift of the women of Calvary Church in memory of Norgren Bradley Allen, who was our seminarian at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and who was killed in October by a fire truck.

Mrs. Allen had a son, her fourth child, born in February at Berkeley, California. Our prayers and love surround her.

Speaks To Women On MauiMrs. Harry S. Kennedy went to Maui on March 4th

to speak to the women (and men desiring to attend) of Holy Innocents Church, Lahaina, St. John’s Church Kula, and Good Shepherd Church, Wailuku, at Good Shepherd Church, Friday, March 6th. She gave her interesting account of the trip she and the Bishop made to Lambeth Conference.

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In te r io r o f S t. B arn ab as ’ M ission.

The Presiding Bishop’s Easter MessageThe Christian faith can be known only from the

inside. The moment you say “I believe in God” you become involved; if you do not become involved, you do not mean what you say.

How evident this is at Easter time! There were no curious spectators at the Resurrection; our Lord made no general public appearances. He showed Himselr alive to those who believed in Him, and those who believed in Him knew they were raised to new life with Him.

So it is with us. When we believe that Christ rose from the dead we are caught up with Him into a different kind of life from what we knew before, we are made partakers of His Resurrection. A Christian has working in him that same power of God which raised Jesus from the dead.

How desperately we stand in need of that trans­forming power today. W e need it in our own lives to give us faith and patience and courage. W e need it working through us to bring order and justice and unity to our world. And that Resurrection power is at hand! That’s what Easter tells us: it is here.

That power, of course, is not just for us. In fact, it cannot work in us unless it works through us. The power of Christ’s Resurrection drives us to be workers for freedom and brotherhood in His name. To be a partaker of His Resurrection is necessarily to be a witness to His saving power.

Arthur Lichtenberger, Presiding Bishop

50th Anniversary To Be Observed1959 is the 50th Anniversary of the Incorporation

of the Parish of St. Clement’s and the 61st year of the existence of St. Clement’s Church, holding services continuously since April 11, 1898, Easter Day. Ry Easter of this year plans will be announced for the observance of this very important anniversary.

R ear A d m ira l S. H . Evans, C om m and er, 14th C oast G uard D is tric t, co n g ratu la tes V e rn C hris tensen fo r his c o n tr ib u ­tio n to w ard bu ild ing S t. B arnab as’ C hu rch , as th e Bishop sm iles ap prova l.

To Have Corporate CommunionMonday, April 6th, at 9:00 a.m., in St. Mary’s

Church, 2062 S. King, members of the Diocesan Altar Guild will meet for a Corporate Communion Service. This comes on The Feast of the Transfiguration. Fol­lowing the service a coffee hour will be held. Mrs. Florence Judd is Diocesan Altar Guild Chairman.

Hail! He hath risen from the grave — our God’s “Beloved Son,”

Who by His cross and passion gave all other gifts in one!

May this great gift, Divine and free,make Easter bright and glad for thee.

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i aO u r S em in ary F a m ilie s a t th e C hurch D iv in ity School o f th e P ac ific . S tan d in g , le ft to r ig h t: T h o m as K u n ich ika , R oger M elrose, Jam es S. Cox, J r., D avid A uyong , Bruce K ennedy, T h o m as M axson, W ill ia m A u lenb ach . Seated, M rs. R oger M elro se, M rs . N . B rad ley ATIen (h e r husband w as k ille d in O cto b er) and M rs. M axson. T h e y w ere en jo y ­ing a d in n e r p a rty given to th em by a fo rm e r C D S P S e m in a ria n , T h e Rev. N orio S asak i, and now V ic a r of St. John’s C hu rch , E lee le , K au a i.

Episcopal HourPresiding Bishop Lichtenberger launches the ten-

week Fourteenth Annual Episcopal Hour on Easter Day over 350 radio stations across the country. This will be the first opportunity Bishop Lichtenberger has had, since becoming Presiding Bishop, to speak on a world-wide radio network.

The Rt. Rev. Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., Bishop of Olympia, speaks on the weekly Episcopal Hour from April 5 through May 31. One of the most keen-minded preachers of the Episcopal Church today, Bishop Bayne has been recognized as an outstanding author and speaker on the Christian’s role in contemporary society, especially in the field of marriage, family life, and the economic and social life of the nation. His Episcopal Hour sermons will be:

“Open Secrets of the Kingdom” — April 5 “Follow Me” — April 12 “I Am What I Am” — April 19 “Families, Small and Great” — April 26

“What God Hath Joined Together” — May 3 “Living and Dying” — May 10 “The Gift of the Spirit” — May 17 “Boldness in the Day of Judgment” — May 24 “Grown Up Children” — May 31

In Hawaii this will be broadcast over Station KANI at 10:30 a.m.

Music for the ten programs is by the famous choir of St. Thomas’ Church, N ew York, under the direction of Mr. William Self.

Japanese Church to Celebrate 100th Anniversary

The Presiding Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. will arrive in Japan on April 5 to participate in the centennial celebration of the Nippon Seikokwai, the autonomous Japanese Church which, like the Episcopal Church, is a member of the Anglican Communion.

The first Protestant missionary in Japan was the

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« шешBishop H orace W . В. Donegan, o f N e w Y o rk , w as one of the tw e n ty -e ig h t bishops w ho p lanted m onkeypod trees on Convention Road, Io lan i School, a t th e tim e of G en­eral C onvention in H on o lu lu , S ep tem b er 1955. W h en he spoke a t Io lan i w h en he w as h e re fo r our Convocation in February , he w as p ic tu red w ith A lle n M a tsu u ra , w ho was his a tte n d a n t w hen he p lanted th e tree .

Rev. John Liggins, an Episcopal priest who was trans­ferred in 1859 from China to Japan, as was his col­league, the Rev. Channing Moore Williams who in 1866 was elected Bishop of both China and Japan.

Helping the Nippon Seikokwai to mark this anniver­sary, the Rt. Rev. Arthur Lichtenberger w ill preach a sermon and deliver an address during the course of ceremonies slated to be held April 7-9 at St. Paul’s University, the eighty-five year old Japanese Church college in Tokyo. Also preaching and speaking will be the Archbishop of Canterbury, leader of the Anglican Communion and Primate of all England.

The Centenary Ceremony, to be held on the after­noon of Tuesday, April 7, will feature a “Great Pro­cession” of guests and hosts; a sermon by Bishop Lichtenberger; and greetings from other distinguished guests. A reception and dinner that evening will be followed by an Open Lecture Meeting, with introduc­tory addresses by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Lichtenberger, and the representative of the Primate of All Canada.

On the morning of W ednesday, April 8, there will be the Centenary Service, making the completion of 100 years since the first Anglican missionaries arrived in Japan after it was opened to the W est by Commo­dore Perry. This Service will also be the Opening

Bishop B en ito C abanban, n ew ly C onsecrated S uffragan of th e P h ilip p in es , B ishop Lym an O g ilby , B ishop of the P h ilip p in es and C onsecrator, Bishop K ennedy, and Bishop P a g takh an , o f Rangoon, p resentors and co-con- secra tors of th e C an d id ate , and B ishop Isabelo de los Reyes, of th e F ilip in o In d ep en d en t C hurch .

Worship Service of the 26th General Convention of the Nippon Seikokwai, whose first General Synod met in 1887. The Rt. Rev. Michael Hinsuke Yashiro, Pre­siding Bishop of the Japanese Church will be the Cele­brant, with the Archbishop of Canterbury preaching.

Other activities on W ednesday will include an afternoon address by Bishop Yashiro, “Reflections on One Hundred Years of the Nippon Seikokwai,” and an evening panel discussion, “Looking Ahead to the Next Hundred Years.”

On Thursday morning, April 9, the Nippon Seiko- kwai’s 26th General Convention will meet in Tucker Hall at St. Paul’s University and the Church’s W oman’s Auxiliary will hold a simultaneous General Convention at Holy Trinity Church, Tokyo. The Centenary activi­ties themselves w ill end with a Centenary Festival at Tucker Hall in the evening.

Total membership of the Nippon Seikokwai today is between 45 and 50 thousand, with some 30 thousand communicants. The Church has ten dioceses, and about 350 parishes, chapels and preaching stations; its native workers number more than 300 and there are some seventy-nine non-Japanese workers at pre­sent. The Most Rev. Michael Hinsuke Yashiro, Bishop of Kobe and Presiding Bishop of the Nippon Seiko­kwai has held his present post since 1947.

Our Bishop will be present for this great event.

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T h e Rev. M a rk M a rece iv in g th e charge a t his O rd in a ­tio n to th e P riesth oo d, S t John’s C hu rch , T a ip e i, T a iw a n , on M a rch 9th .

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i l l - " №иіSt Jo h n ’s C hurch p ictu red du ring th e serv ice of O rd in a ­tion.

Layin g on of hands — th e Bishop, T h e Rev. R ich ard Yoh, and th e Rev. C h arles P. G ilson, w ho is in charge of our w o rk on T a iw a n . H e presented th e O rd in an d . T h e Rev. M r. Y oh is in charge of G race C hurch , T a in a n , and th e Rev. M r. M a of S t P a u l’s K aohsiung.

Head of Church Women to Visit HawaiiOn her return from the Centennial Celebration of

the Church in Japan, Mrs. Arthur Sherman, of New York, and Executive Director of the General Division of W omen’s Work, will be in Honolulu April 19th to speak to our women at Holy Nativity Church, at 3 P.M. A reception honoring her will follow her talk.

In nicmoriamMrs. Yin-Chin Shim, ( Chin-Kui-Kyau) mother of

the Rev. Canon Wai On Shim, rector of St. Elizabeth’s Church, Honolulu, passed away on Thursday, March 5th, in Los Angeles, after a brief illness. She lived with her son-in-law and daughter, The Rev. and Mrs. Y. Sang Mark. She was born in 1872 in Kwangtung Province, China.

On her retirement from the Mission at Kula, Maui, Bishop Kennedy presented her with a purse at a special service of Holy Communion at our Convoca­tion in 1944, paying tribute to the great contribution she had made to our work on Maui.

Another son, Richard Wai Chong Shim, of Tokyo, Japan, and six grandchildren also survive her.

The sympathy of the entire Diocese is extended to her family in their sorrow. The Rev. C. Fletcher Howe, retired, has written the following tribute to this be­loved person:

S HI MA H andm aid o f the Lord

The early story has been told of how St. John’s Chinese Mission came to be in the Kula District of the Island of Maui, and of how there came in 1899 to be there a Minister of the Gospel in the person of the Rev. Shim Yin Chin who was determined that he would teach of the Lord Jesus Christ as he taught the children of the Chinese farmers on the slope of Hale- akala, in their Language School. It also has been told of how he passed on to his reward after eighteen years of consecrated service to his Lord and among his fel-

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low countrymen scattered over the mountain-side.And now it is our sad lot to pay tribute to her who,

as the Rev. Mr. Shim’s wife, came to join him in 1914 after being deterred for a season by a physical weak­ness, to be his faithful co-worker during the remaining years of his life. Sorrow came to overshadow for a time; and then in 1923 the late Bishop La Mothe pre­vailed upon her to return to the mountain chapel with her daughter, Dora, and take up once more and as far as she was able among those mountain folk the work which her husband had had to lay down—work which

I had come to be so close to her while he was still alive. Then, changes came in the nature of the Kula peoples. That together with her lack of familiarity with the English language and her age, led her in 1944 to seek retirement in Honolulu, to be with her son, The Rev.

I Canon Wai On Shim.There comes to mind as these words are being

written, happy memories of Sunday afternoons spent in St. John’s Chapel among the old and the young whom Mrs. Shim had been gathering together week after week that she might teach them to live faithfully as followers of their Lord and Master. Other thoughts come of her trudging up mountain trails leading to the homes of her people, prepared with her Chinese Bible and Book of Common Prayer to read to the old or to teach the young, to be glad when they would re­joice, and to give comfort and help in times of sad­ness. Still another recollection comes of a day after her return to Honolulu, when she was found alone in her room, and with failing eye-sight, searching the Scriptures.

Truly, she was a teacher to many while she was still here among us. The Heavenly Father in His love and wisdom has called her to be with Him; but still she may be our teacher — a blessed teacher before whose presence what is evil in us should shrink, abashed away.

Those “Easter Christians”By the V ery Rev. Granville Taylor, D.D.

There is a tendency after Easter to speak slighting­ly and sometimes a bit scornfully of the so-called “Easter Christians.”

There is no doubt that the Church would be very much stronger if those who attend our services on Christmas and Easter were more faithful and more devoted to Christ’s Kingdom. In no way do we defend the position of those who limit their worship to Christmas and Easter. God’s work suffers and they, too, are losers. W e must not, however, forget the other side of the story.

We are all thrilled and inspired when our churches are crowded, as they are at Easter. There is an exalta-

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Consecrated BishopThe Reverend Edmund K. Sherrill, son of the

retired Presiding Bishop, Henry Knox Sherrill and Mrs. Sherrill, was consecrated Bishop of the Mission­ary District of Central Brazil, in Christ Church, Rio de Janeiro, on January 25, 1959.

Bishop Sherrill acted as his son’s Consecrator. His brothers, the Rev. Henry W. Sherrill, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Rev. Franklin G. Sherrill, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, were the attending presbyters, with the former serving as deputy registrar for the service.

Others participating in the consecration were Bishops Krischke of Southern Brazil and Simoes, of Southwestern Brazil as co-consecrators and as pre­senting bishops.

Before his election Bishop Sherrill was a mission­ary in the Missionary District of Central Brazil.

tion which we all feel and it adds tremendously to the joy of Easter. In this connection, we should not forget the great contribution the “Easter Christians” make. Without them our churches would not be crowded and we should lose much if they were absent.

The fact that they wish to come even two or three times a year should be some encouragement. It in­dicates, at least, that there is religious life there and a capacity to share and enjoy public worship of Al­mighty God. They have built up their lives around centers of interest other than religious. How can we change those centers and put Christ and His Church in their proper places? That is the great challenge confronting the church. It is a hopeful challenge b e­cause they do have within them the capacity to love and worship God.

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These great outpourings of men and women to our services on Easter Day are a further indication of the fact that there is a divine spark in every man. It may be buried deep and may Ііе dormant for years, but it is there and sometimes it comes to the surface and manifests itself. It persists through the years and in that fact lies the hope of the world. Man has been created with an innate divine hunger for God. W e can be grateful to the Easter Christians for reminding us of this profound and most important truth. When I call them “Easter Christians” I am not speaking scorn­fully or with derision. I am grateful to them for their contribution to my Easter. If they cannot come Sunday after Sunday, then we want them to come at Christmas and Easter, or whenever they can or will.

T h e com pleted church, A gana, Guam . T h e quonset hut purchased fo r $10 is no w va lued a t $10,000.

T h e Rev. Canon R ich ard H . B aker, o f Guam (r ig h t ) , greets T h e R ev. L a m a r S p e ie r on his a r r iv a l on Guam to jo in o u r s ta ff th e re .

Everything in the modern home today seems to be controlled with switches—except the children.

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